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# SKYGAZERS idea

## "Skygazers"
In comic style, dude that looks up to sky. Could be a scene from a comic, start of a story... Randomness is in:
- dude
- dude styling
- sky
- what is flying through the sky


<img src="https://i.imgur.com/cJqhEIq.jpg" alt="drawing" style="width:500px;margin: 0px 0 50px 0"/>



## 9 september
- discord & twitter opzetten
- op ipfs hosten? ipfs backup?
- communitietje starten?
- 500 opzij houden voor community
- tone of voice
- release in fases
- Sean vragen?
- test-event van mintevent
- Skygazers/stargazers/moongazers?

### Trigger
Skygazer can be openings set of a fantasy graphic novel.
The beginning of a narrative.

Within the community - you can discover more perks like being rewarded for curating community, building 

skygazers.studio
skygazers.world


### Layer order:

1. hero glasses & eyes
2. hero mouths & beards
3. hero cloths & body acc.
4. hero base
5. sky
6. background

## 17 september
- change names of pngs to '1,2,3,...' per folder
- numbers per character/mint-event:
    - 1000 (100 for team) monks
    - 100 (10 for team) warrior-princess
    - 5000 (500 for team) droids
    - 500 (50 for team) scientists

- timelapse video/making off

What are we ?
- community of story tellers


Goal
- incentivize fan fiction
- loyal holders (hodl NFT for longer times)
- high quality voters


How
- DAO decides how fund gets allocated towards creating fan art

Concept "time"
- reward ppl for hodling the NFT longer
- mint a token pro-rata to the amount of time you are owner of an NFT
- user can at any time mint tokens, thereby resetting his counter


- first thing to vote on: official storyline



## 12 october

- separate site:
    - front (landingpage)
    - app (to mint and stuff)
- List who to allow to premint

- NEXT STEPS:
    - Ben (& Sean) does landingpage
    - Sponnet does dryrun on Ropsten
    - sponnet investigates random minting to avoid knowing which one comes next in minting.

- Links Sean:
    - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1P4eHtuSDXZwt_pAk2MTtxy7gUgMqLfEQ1y9zggoEBeY/edit?usp=sharing
    - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DLacEVlIBl7UYPfggL6zO1N-J-9OxlBTF3AgiDfRsJs/edit?usp=sharing



## 15 october
- diff mint-events in 1 contract: so we can trigger a mint-event per character (then they belong to the same contract/collection) --> maybe later add more characters?
- correct IPFS hash to be added later as base-url
- what will be the floorprice for minting an NFT? What percentage goes to community?
- writing story per nft on website, by current owner of NFT (he has the right to add a new (and thus latest) IPFS hash) --> later maybe add possibility for the owner to extend decision to a voting, what will be the next part of the story in voting?


## Beatiful day 19 Nov
- deploy contract on Ropsten
- Sponnet investigates diff events to trigger in contract
- Bennisan create all assets for website
- Sean makes website?


## 7 dec
w Ben and Sean
- about website: check out scen A / B for blog: 
    - scen A: react code + strapi
    - scen B: Webflow
- currently continue w A to get something live quickly, afterwards possibly re-evaluate
- for blog Sean will start creating a narrative flow, according to the comm objectives
- +/- 3 months from launch website until NFT-event Monk
- have the app ready by first launch


## 10 dec
- blog.skygazers.world now live!
- Bennisan adjusts styling of blog
- Sean will think about how to announce/create content plan
- B&S will put dates and visuals to it
- Sponnet works on numbers + prepares to put on site
- Think about name for timetoken

## 17 dec
- Sean made blog contant plan (page2 social campaign) which follows same comm objects, but also have overall themes
- Sean wrote for the about page for website
- 'Ideas to explore' -> hooks which we can use later on
    - in a graphic novel/storyline
    - setup Discord channels per hook, have discussions
    - ...
- Ben creates visuals for tweets
- App is now called Skyportal --> Ben and Sponnet starts on this functionality?
- to do skygazers.world before launch:
    - add about page w content from Sean
    - add/edit the tokenpage w content from Sponnet
    - adjust on how-itworks page
        - price to mint (not just tx but a small small investment to keep your focus)
        - how to mint

## 6 jun 2022
- What do we need in general:
    - contract w event triggers
    - app: holders write story
    - app: holders timetoken vote
    - site/communication-plan
    - artwork

## 10 jun 2022
- consider how many one can mint/at one time?
- idea that if you hold something, that this is an advantage when minting (more rare, ...); driven by the story: good for marketing aspect but also how story evolves
- value / virtue everyone identifies w
- skygazers-publication
- highlight the community's discussion etc.
- ambassadors (bottom-up) & influencers (kevins etc.)


## 16 jun 2022
Concepts of today's call:
- passive revenue: certain % of derived products is distributed among 'passive' Timetoken-holders
- derived product project template
- NFT current owner = IP
- change of concept for jumpstarts: now we approach amateur writers and offer them jumpstartslot= free NFT + percentage of total sale of NFTs (--> to have some stories from the start)
- concept previous of jumpstart now knows as ambassadors
- How NFT's are minted (aka FOMOnomics)
    - Phase 1: Monks
        - index 1 to 3000 are monks
        - we manually mint the founders' NFT's: mint index 0-30 (30 founder Monks), 3000-3003 (3 founder princesses) etc. 
        - we manually mint NFT's 31-40 (10 Jumpstart slots : monks)
        - we manually mint NFT's 41-90 (50 for ambassadors) 
        - then we accept whitelist submissions (open for all?) 
        - at pre sale: we activate selling slots (91 -> 590) but only of you are on the whitelist (500 will be sold in pre-sale)
        - at public sale: anyone can buy slots 591 -> 3000 (monks only)
    - Phase 2: princesses
        - if you have a Monk at pre-mint certain snapshot you are on the whitelist to mint a princess
        - at pre-sale: we activate selling slots (3004-3014) only if you are whitelisted
        - at public sale: anyone can buy slots 3015-3100
    - Phase 3: scientists (same as phase 2)
        - if you have a Monk + a Princess ...
    - Phase 4: droids (same as phase 2,3)
        - if you have a Monk + a Princess + scientist ...

Note that time token minting starts at minting of the NFT, so early birds capture already more time tokens!


- Q's for Sean:
    - how many can you mint at one time: advantages/disadvantages?
    - his ideas w ambassador-program: rewards, expectations, evaluation, ...?
    - minting plan: timing?

What can we do now
- NFT contract
    - mint index(start,end,recipient)
    - look at solution for whitelist merkle tree
        - implement smart contract part in NFT minting contract
        - implement whitelist in React app


### Release Timeline

- 6 months worth of time tokens are minted + evenly ditributed amongs founders so that first 6months we have a majority to vote all proposals. (this can be done through the issuance rate of the time token)
- rendering of 9997 pieces of artwork
- rally for Reddit users and promise them a free NFT + % of the NFT sales as a incentive = jumpstart slot --> (artwork of these 50 are already shown to the potential contributors - but are hidden from the public)
- Founders decide which submissions will receive a Jumpstart slot.
- meanwhile in the DAO: we build a few sample stories and integrate them in the website (skygazers.world) as a promo website
- Start of mint:
    - pre-mint 10 for Jumpstart slots (ex. writers)which includes
        - the recipient address
        - the IPFS hash of their story attached to their NFT
    - pre-mint 50 for Ambassadors (ex. YouTubers), they will receive
        - a % of sales revenue
        - a free NFT
    - pre-sale slots. 500 NFT's will be sold in a pre-sale. Presale is open for everyone. Ambassadors will lead audience to pre-sale website. 
        
    
## 17 juni
- jumpstart slots -> Sean might know who (journalists who write creative)
- maybe cap minting at 5? def cap to avoid whales buying in and leaving everything idle
- brainstorm on how we can make lore-compadible (endless loop) as a DAO
- brainstorm on blogposts
- thinking together about timing, following marketing/communication

        
    
## 20 juli
Ben & Sean (to add notes)

Overarching Story
* Focus on the sci-fi, creative, writing, graphic novel audience - cultural creative vibes

Skygazer brand voice and tone
* Tech wars/future vs cultural/awareness is the underlying structure
* Lyrical, storytelling - comes out of the stories we’re creating 

Legend of these characters
* Always make it personal, not commercial

MONK
* Wise voice for monk
* Spiritual and abstract, floaty and hippy-like

PRINCESS
* Direct and bold voice for Princess
* Very proper, comes from royalty
* A foundling, raised by orphanage, in a warrior-oriented culture
* No BS, has an edge to her to prove herself

SCIENTIST 
* technical voice, curious and contemplative
* Like Donatello from TMNT
* A little difficult in communicating on a human level
* Wonder, analytical, rough around the edges with people

DROID
* Not a single visualization
* Head and body can look totally unique, parts and pieces
* Humourous, he’s comical, light-hearted 
* Cynical, ‘as if I should care’
* Willing to sacrifice himself in some way for the others
* Why is he looking at the sky, something misprogrammed in his AI
* Intended as your companion
* Some have glitches and instead of looking around for danger, they didn’t fulfill their purpose to be a companion
* Instead they were always looking up to the sky - what else are they thinking?

Attention Wars as backdrop - the setting
* Conflict - within the structure of the character and story
    * Individual vs society - society wants you to be locked in your screen cause that’s the cool thing to do
    * Individual vs institution - the corporations harvesting your focus
    * Individual vs self - how do I spend my focus, how do I decide to spend my time, am I fulfilled?

[Working document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e8TdllXBCgkn6fVqW7W5n4Xd8vdWMXxziArXEAmZyjM/edit?usp=sharing) for Ambassadors
        
    
## 26 juli
Ben & Sponnet

- Consider Astro?
- ~~against voting-apathy: reward time-tokens to voters for the 1st 1000 voting rounds (voting on lore)~~
- gallery/lore-consisten trait! DAO votes on this as well
- terminology/word? episode, adventure, ...
- ditch the presale!
- changed amounts -> also change indexes of NFT mint!
- Dutch Action per character!
- Project approach: splitter of funds in % -> directly after each Dutch Action
- google doc [dutch auction + prices](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dqGzNPaWsQMf5NjFixe9z4ZLg1MNCdUmJcxepQyW5Hg/edit#gid=1097187690)
    Proposal
    -  30% founders
    -  30% operations (marketing, legal, ...)
    -  40% DAO (first 6 months under control of founders - after that DAO vote since >50% TIME tokens in community)
-  google doc [time token distribution](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1evgii9ljdgZrSS3D3_aRe4snXn_4PdgVMI-tutZLtFU/edit#gid=0)
- Which tooling to use for day to day operations of the DAO ?
    - daohaus 
    - discourse (https://blog.discourse.org/2014/04/install-discourse-in-under-30-minutes/)
    - discord
    - ... https://attrace.com/ ?
- rough timing
    - now -> 1/9 : whitepaper + slides + marketing prep.
    - 1/9 : start marketing + artwork finalize + dapp + smart contracts
    - 1/11: start dutch aution for monks
    - 1/12: start dutch auction for princess
    - 1/1 : start dutch auction for scientist
    - 1/2 : start dutch auction for droid
- TODO: take pre-mint of VFT's into account in totals / dutch auction calculation !


    
## 1 august
Ben & Sean
- on board w dutch auction
- reward ambassadors after certain period of time (ask Sponnet cfr. emittance rate) w Timetokens that were preminted to founders?
- legal friend doing research etc.
- Sean thinks about the timing


    
## 17 august
Ben, Sean & Sponnet
- to be added to whitepaper:
    - timeline piece
    - CTA piece
    - Tech stack piece
- day-to-day, full circle

## 18 august
Ben & Sean
- experience for minting! Visual/conceptual
- legal stuff: keep it basic, straight forward.
    - Concept still works just in web3, if it only involves the Skygazers-DAO: if I write a good story, I increase the value of my NFT bcs it's more likely to be picked up by DAO for derived product. I can still sell the 'receiving end' of revenue: if DAO makes derived product, revenue goes to owner of NFT
- what we want to avoid legally is:
    - someone writes story w NFT
    - sells NFT
    - later, when movie is made, says: yeah but I actually wrote that story back then
- Ben & Sean went through WP up until the examples w Unique Ownership Model

## 23 august
Ben & Sponnet
- List of tasks w/i the network:
    - minting NFT
    - writing/editing story
    - submit for adding to collection
    - DAO-voting on story-proposal
    - discussing
- lore: CC license
- derived products template / overwritable by DAO (after production)
 
## 26 august
Ben & Sean
 
## 30 sept
Ben, Sponnet & Sean
- POAP for Bogota -> acces to token-gated discord channel
- TODO: Ben create artwork, Sponnet setup discord channel "Skygazers-Alpha"
- Sean has sent docs to friend for creating terms & conditions
- sentence or two about jumpstart slots
- in WP: conceptual
- sponnet: send NFT contacts to sean
- sponnet: look up launch platform for tweets etc.

**Launch prerequisites**
- Website
    - concept TL;DR
    - initial content
- Whitepaper
- contracts
- go to market / rollout plan (+ambassadors program)


**PHASE 0.1:**
happening while rollout plan is in action
- Skygazers-Dapp
- Some adventures
- Lore-start
- create more art


Ambassadors program:
- diff tiers
- rewards: 10000 time tokens? NFT?
- doubletime! When mint-event is coming up
- platform for doublechecking retweet?

 
## 10 oktober
Ben, Sponnet & Sean from Bogota!
- hackaton/ded. hrs on 20,21 and 24 okt:
    - Ben & Sponnet will create MVP
        - smart contract
        - dapp stories
        - dapp lore
        - dutch auction for collection 1
    - Sean will create content/content-plan
- we try launching the first Dutch Action (Monk) = dec 10th
- Homework before the hackaton! > read whitepaper, make note, discuss async
- 
 
## 16 nov
Ben & Sponnet
- We change the approach: instead of working towards 1 big launch w Dutch Action, we now go for a "drip-approach + endless NFT-mint"
- We will work towards small deliverables and drop these when they are ready, organically growing the community, f.i.:
    - we create website, and put that live already, and communicate about it
    - we create lore-mechanism and put that live already, and communicate about it
- For this to work, we need an NFT-mint that is not bound in time: you will be able to mint a Skygazers-NFT while supplies last. The price will increase as the amount of minted NFT's grow, f.i.:
    - index 1 - 100 cost 0,01 ETH
    - index 101-200 cost 0,02 ETH
    - ...
- We take the liberty of dropping the artwork when we feel like it LOL
- We don't premint NFTs for ourself, we do premint a few that go into the DAO
- We don't premint timetokens: to make sure we have the majority in the DAO to start w, we will just personally by the first NFT's and start gaining timetokens!

![](https://i.imgur.com/PadC9RH.png)
 
## 18 nov
Ben & Sponnet
- first order of business Bennisan: website!
    - repo: https://github.com/sponnet/skygazers.world
    - production branch: https://skygazersworld.netlify.app/
    - main branch : https://main--skygazersworld.netlify.app/
    - workflow: push (preferably via PR) to main - automatically released on main branch URL
    - then do a PR from main -> production to push it to skygazers.world
- also: Discord structure/anti-bot
- also: email collecting
User stories for dapp
- https://github.com/skygazers-world/skygazers/issues
Goals for next week
- initial website launched
- build initial functionalities of dapp (app.skygazers.world)
    - https://github.com/skygazers-world/skygazers/issues/2
    - https://github.com/skygazers-world/skygazers/issues/4


## 07 december
Ben & Sponnet
- website --> Ben
    - Discord: structure + antibot
    - SKYpaper
- Dapp

## 13 feb
Ben & Sponnet

What we need for EthDenver launch
- [ ] website
- [ ] skypaper (+curve sale minting @sponnet)
- [ ] contracts live on mainnet
- [ ] app in mvp
- [ ] talk / slides
- [ ] artwork + script

Website dev:
- main branch --> https://main--skygazersworld.netlify.app/
- production branch --> https://skygazers.world  


Prep for friday:
- website live --> Bennisan
- skypaper --> Bennisan
- skypaper curve sale minting --> Sponnet
- talk on paper --> Bennisan

On friday:
- [ ] NFT live
- [ ] talk + slides + video
- [ ] app live
- [ ] script working on laptop Ben

## 16 march 2023
Sam & Ben
- D&D campaigns from Skygazers! --> owner write as a story next to NFT
- on youtube live
- Also do for FRTD